Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ron Beard

When he figures out how incredibly good he is, he'll be unstoppable.

Eric Brown

I think my fascination is less with genre figures than with writers in general.

James Van Der Beek

I'm not about to talk about what's romantic in my life - I figure if you talk about it once - then that's an open invitation for everyone to dig into your personal life even further

Billie Joe Armstrong

I like to keep my girlish figure

Twyla Tharp

When I look at the people who are the guiding figures in modern dance, I think, 'This does not look to me like the way I want to spend my days.'

John Dunford

Next year will be even lower. I think the figures are in free fall. We are losing a generation of linguists.

Mark Zandi

On the national level, I think you'll see weakness in jobs figures for September, October and maybe even November.

Bill Zollars

Given that third quarter was revised upward significantly, I am skeptical that growth was so low and I will wait until we have the final figures to judge.

Nate Clements

I don't know what the figures look like, yet, I really don't get into that. I just worry about producing on the field.

Carlos Fuentes

Religion is dogmatic. Politic is ideological. Reason must be logical, but literature has a privilege of being equivocal.

Charles Dickens

The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.

Charles Dickens

Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips.

Charles Dickens

I made a compact with myself that in my person literature should stand by itself, of itself, and for itself.

Charles Caleb Colton

If we steal thoughts from the moderns, it will be cried down as plagiarism; if from the ancients, it will be cried up as erudition.

Charles Caleb Colton

There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.

Charles Caleb Colton

Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.

Charles Caleb Colton

The Grecian’s maxim would indeed be a sweeping clause in Literature; it would reduce many a giant to a pygmy; many a speech to a sentence; and many a folio to a primer.

Charles Caleb Colton

Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions.

Jamie Bell

I never really sympathised with Peter Parker.

Billy Joel

Davey Crocket, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland.

George Stephanopoulos

years and years of practice trying to keep up with Peter Jennings.

Chris Van Allsburg

Peter Rabbit's not a rabbit. Peter Rabbit is a proxy for the child who reads the book, and they imagine themselves in the rabbit's position.

Dave Walker

Peter is not recovering from (plantar fasciitis), and we need him because hes our No. 1 runner,

Garry Davidson

Peter has said he wants to go on, which is great.

Pete Townshend

Peter Doherty is the ultimate rock 'n' roll nihilist, the ultimate rock 'n' roll f***wit.

Kevin Kelley

Peter does everything for us. He's probably one of the most underrated players out there.

Bible Bible

But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer. (1 Peter 4:7)

Todd Solondz

When I was making Storytelling, I couldn't watch while the violent sex scene between the student and the professor was being shot. It was too intense.

Charles Johnson

wasn't a professor here, he was only a student here.

Joan Roscoe

It is like a documentary because she has it written day-by-day and incident-by-incident. She was a professor of English. Her writing is wonderful, wonderful writing.

Alex Hernandez

We have to look at race more often. And the professor seems to like to talk about race.

Wystan Hugh Auden

A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep.

Charles Johnson

(Brown) wasn't a professor here, he was only a student here.

Pankaj Mishra

Tenured professors are more prone than the rest of us to think that the university is the universe.

Roe Hye

There is no way but that Professor Hwang has been involved.

J. K. Rowling

Professor McGonagall: "Why don't you confer with Mr. Finnigan? As I recall, he has a particular proclivity for pyrotechnics.

Kate Thompson

Writers want publicity all the time, and they are always nagging their agents and publishers to give them more publicity, but, when you get it, it's kind of soul-destroying.

Peter Brimelow

Textbook publishers don't even bother to advertise at their conventions.

J. A. Konrath

Writers are essential. Readers are essential. Publishers are not.

Denise Mina

There are a lot of bottlenecks to getting published. Publishers are only one of them. Having the time is another one. Feeling entitled is another one.

Johnny Rivers

Alan's publishing company was in the Brill Building, and of course, the Brill Building was where all the songwriters hung out because that's where all the publishers were.

Paul Di Filippo

The impossibility of a sequel ever recapturing everything - or anything - about its ancestor never stopped legions of writers from trying, or hordes of readers and publishers from demanding more of what they previously enjoyed.

Jared Zabransky

When you see a big safety back there, it's more of a threatening presence.

Charles Caleb Colton

They that are loudest in their threats are the weakest in the execution of them. It is probable that he who is killed by lightning hears no noise; but the thunder-clap which follows, and which most alarms the ignorant, is the surest proof of their safety.

Dianne Feinstein

Rogue internet pharmacies continue to pose a serious threat to the health and safety of Americans. Simply put, a few unethical physicians and pharmacists have become drug suppliers to a nation.

David Shore

Shorten the runway and you have fewer takeoffs and landings, shorten the runway and you enhance safety and reduce the noise, ... It also reduces the justification for the buyout as it is now being proposed.

Bruce Wilkinson

The single best way to develop leaders . . . is to take people out of their safe environment and away from the people they know, and throw them into a new arena they know little about. Way over their head, preferably. In fact, the more demanding their challenges, the more pressure and risk they face, the more likely a dynamic leader will emerge.

Jandy Nelson

The. World. Is. Not. A. Safe. Place.

Jane Austen

…each found her greatest safety in silence…

Alan Watts

What we have to discover is that there is no safety, that seeking is painful, and that when we imagine that we have found it, we don’t like it.

Alan Guth

It's actually safe to create a universe in your basement.

Dustin Moskovitz

I'm not really sure where it comes from, but every time I meet someone who says 'I really want to be an entrepreneur' but has no idea what they want to do, I really just think: 'This person is totally aimless.'

Glenn Wilson

Well, she took the money. It says a lot about her credibility.

Derek Walker

She says things like 'Mama, my stuff is all wet,'

Mack Brown

Pete says if you're talking about the streak and thinking about the streak, it's going to come to an end.

Billy Donovan

I'd like to start Moss, unless he says he doesn't want to start.

Carrie Fisher

No one says that to you any more really,

Brittany Snow

I have a ladybug on my wrist that I got when I was doing 'John Tucker Must Die,' and I have a tattoo on my ankle that's in Sanskrit that says 'Fearless.'

Stefano Gabbana

What the fashion system says and what the fashion customer says are really two different things.

Jeffrey Kessler

When someone says it's not about the money, it's about the money.